I returned my sorry carcass to another pottery painting event, armed with 10 spells/cantrips; a specially-purchased personal brush set; and severe anxiety at only having 2 turns (okay, 2 hours) to cast them all successfully upon a solitary drinking vessel.
Vessel of Arcane Pep and Vim:
+2 to Wisdom saving throws upon use, use once per short rest (when I get up from my desk to boil the kettle).
I now have a little set of 'low-key bg3 merch' to my name - and I eventually got a li'l plant from Søstrene Grene for my Netherese vase.
And now I need ideas for when I inevitably go back again... Anyone?
Imagine if Gary and Ash like, talked about pokemon. Gary stopped being a trainer because he loved learning about pokemon, YOU KNOW WHO ELSE LOVES LEARNING ABOUT POKEMON??? ASH!!!!!!!!!!!! He's so giddy about basically anything pokemon, can you imagine if Gary told Ash about whatever he's studying Ash would be so captivated. And likewise!! Ash has seen so much, he might even know more than Gary does. That moment in journeys where they ask each other what they were up to and they somehow manage to mutually dodge the question NO !!!! THEY WOULD TALK FOR 5 HOURS ABOUT THEIR ADVENTURES AND LIKE IT !!!!!! and goh would just have to put up with that
Respecced Paladin Karlach, a little bit alarmed at how violently Dame Aylin brutalizes Thorm's corpse: I mean. I GET it, but I swore an Oath of Vengeance and even I'm a little bit unsettled, yeah?
Now, it's like 9pm and my brain is mush, I'm going off memory with this quote said in season 2, episode 7. It's said by none other than eternally angry boy, Niragi Suguru, a menace to the aib fandom space. Now, I do enjoy him as a character, and I also hate him as a person, and to watch both sides of the fandom bicker is tiring. I like him, I think he's complex and fun, and very fucked up. I think he has some interesting things to explore, like what I want to talk about that I feel gets misunderstood a lot. I am not a Niragi apologist who thinks his actions are fine or that he's a uwu baby, and I can fully see him a morally corrupt person. He's still fun to me. With that out of the way, a little analysis on one specific quote.
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"if there were 7 billion of me, you'd be the villain too,"
Now, a lot of the reaction YouTubers I've seen usually scoff at him, or don't understand him at all when he says this, because wtf does that even mean? Dude just tried to kill the main cast. But listen.
Niragi is a deeply troubled person with an extensive history of emotional neglect and physical abuse. He's a hurt, abused adult who's never been given an ounce of positive reinforcement in his life before he got to beach and then, that was the fuel to his psycho.
In his attempt to never show weakness for fear of being hurt again, he's become the very people he hates. He's become his bullies, repeating the cycle of abuse. And he knows that, it's why he's so angry when he sees Arisu and Chishiya become better people. Because they also lacked loving families, and made selfish choices that hurt those around them, and to Niragi, they should be able to understand his pain. But they were able to break the cycle and be happy, and Niragi wasn't. And it's because of this he's become the one thing he truly hates the most.
Alone.
He doesn't want or deserve their forgiveness. He knows that. He wants someone, for once, to just understand why hes like this.
If there were 7 billion of me, you'd be the villain too.
If everyone you knew belittled and hurt you, made you suffer till all you could feel was bone deep resentment, you'd become just as bad as them.
I gotta be honest, this particular scenario is why I never build characters who cannot teleport as a bonus action. I cannot handle being grappled, it stresses me out SO MUCH.